St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-13
railroads should be on basis of so much
per ton per mile. Such thing would re-

per ton per mile. Such thing would re
: suit in
SHUTTING OUT MINNESOTA WHEAT
from the markets of the East, since tn,
cost OF transporting wheat from Minnesota
would be so much greater than from thu
New England and Eastern states as to bal
| IL from competition with them. Should
such provision become law, and were HI
a producer on larger scale than at present
the speaker would be compelled to mov,
| from Minnesota to Maine in orde
TO raise the cereal with profit
Here Mr.. Daniels raised point of order
That the discussion was upon the amend
ment of the senator from Nicollet. and moi
upon the general principles of the bill. The
president sustained the point, but the dis
cusslon went on all the same. A vote was
eventually taken,
KILLING THE AMENDMENT.
Yeas-Akin, Brown. Buckman. Burkhardt
Chapman, Child, Clough, Compton, Crandall
Daniels. Durant Gibson. Hayden, Ives. John
son NJ, johnson T., Nelson, Smith, Welch an6
Whiteman-20.
Nays-Andersou, Bowen. Clark Comstock
Day, Dodge, Edwards, Finseth, Goodrich,
Hall, Haivorsen, Hixson. Hoard, Keller,
Lende, Nachbar, Oswald, Pope, Shields. Sven.
son, Thacker, Wallmark and Woods.
Senator Pope, of Blue Earth. submitted
his amendment similar to the one unani-
mously passed by the senate the afternoon
previous, viz: A clause to be incorporated
into the bill in congress to make it unlaw-
ful for railroads to charge any higher rates
per ton per mile for longer than for q
shorter haul. Discussion was again started,
and it took a wide range, Messrs. Comstock
and Durant opposinf Mr.. Pope's amend
ment, and the principles of the bill in gen.
eral. and Messrs. Pope HiXson. Whiteman,
Crandall. Daniels, L. Johnson and Mach
bar speaking in its favor and contending
for the amendment of Senator Pope Mr.
Pope argued that the intention of his
amendment was simply to prevent discrim-
nation in favor of short hauls. as against
long haulS, but it did not prohibit the rail-
roads from charging less pro rata for long
haul than for short one. Mr.. Durant was
of the opinion that it favored the railroads
about as much as it did the producers. Mir.
Pope had read in a paper
from which Mr.. Comstuck had quoted
that Congressman Strait was in receipt of
communications from the St. Paul and
Minneapolis JObberS' unions. 1t was about
time, he thought, that the opinions of the
people of Minnesota should be expressed
THROUGH THE STATE LEGISLATURE,
anu not through the Jobbers' unions. nor
the paper referred to. After long and tedi-
Gus discussion vote was taken on the
amendment. at the suggestion of Mr.. Com
stock to accept the amendment and then
refer the Whole matter to the railroad COM
mlttee for its consideration and report. The
amendment Of Mr.. Pope was adopted unan-
imouSly. Then the motion renewed by
MI. ComStOck to send the matter to the
railroad committee was lost. and the house
memorial as amended was passed by the
following vote, it being urged that it was
necessary to telegraph the result to Wash
lngton as soon as possible:
Yeas-Akin Anderson, Bowen, Brown,
Bucktnan, Burkhardt, Chapman, Child, Clark,
Crandali, Daniels, Day, Dodge, Eaton, Ed
wards, Finseth, Gibson. Halyorsen, Hixson,
Ives, johnson NJ, Lende, Nachbar, Nelson,
Pope, Scheiler, Shields, Swenson, Thacker,
Wallmark, Welch. WLiteman, Wood-33.
Nays-Comstock, Durant, Hayden, John
son T., Oswald-5.
Calling of the roll was interrupted by
Mr.. Johnson, of Houston county. asking if
the memorial as amended had been read in
full. The secretary read Mr.. Pope's
amendment. Mr.. Johnson voted aye.
Then Mr.. Ives arose and explained that the
part Of the memorial which had been
termed "DOnnelly's speech" had not been
read. Senator Goodrich was in the chair
for the time being and he instructed the
secretary (Actiug Secretary A. p. Swan
strom) to read that part of it also. When
it was read Mr., Johtf s>a -------=-=----,-
a..,-..,,sk CHANGED HIS VOTE
to the negative. Mr. Nelson, of Goodhue.
wanted to vote aye on Mr.. Pope's amend
ment and no on Mr.. Donnelly's speech, !"
but as the amendment to strike out the p0r-
ton objected to had been killed. he had to
vote aye on the memorial in its symmetrical
entirety.
The passage of the memorial left the SEN
ate III precisely the same position it had
taken the afternoon previous. except that
there were some dissenting votes. The
amendment of Mr.. Pope for the bill in con-
gress is made little more explicit, how
ever.
Several house bills of local nature were
then read and passed, and the senate con-
CURED in the bill appropriating $50, 600 for
the expenses of the legislature.
Two more bills were introduced, there
being no objection. The first was by Mr.
Daniels. 1t deals with
THE OIL INSPECTOR,
and leaves the amount of fees to be col
lected upon packages inspected the same,
but it provides that he must turn over to
the state treasury annually all fees in ex-
cess of $4,000, and the amount used up for
travelling expenses. 1t also provides for
deputy inspectors at salaries of 81, 600 per
annum, with travelling expenses.
The last bill was by Mr.. Hoard, for the
establishment and maintenance of farmers
institutes, and approprlating $1,000 annu-
ally for them during the years 1887 and
1888. the expenses of no one institute to
exceed 500. Referred to the committe on
agriculture.
Adjournment was taken until 10 a. m.
TODAY